Paços de Ferreira expected to fight losing battle when facing Porto

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Competition: Portugal Primeira Liga
Competition: Sat 02.October
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Do Dragão (50033 seats)

Porto have performed excellent football so far this season, sitting at 2nd position in the table. Paços de Ferreira have a view both ways from their 8th position.

Insights:
  • Porto have the most scored goals (10) at home in Primeira Liga
  • Porto have scored more than double the goals of Paços de Ferreira.

Only a few days to rest for the host team, as they played a Champions League fixture only four days earlier. This match was also played here at Estádio Do Dragão. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Paços de Ferreira have had more rest.

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Porto form and stats

Perfect Primeira Liga season at home so far for Porto 3 wins from 3 appearances. There’s a good atmosphere here at Estádio Do Dragão after three straight home wins.

Porto's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-5 versus Liverpool. As you see from the result above, Porto suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Porto's goalkeeper Diogo Costa was extremely busy against Liverpool, saving the team from a uglier defeat with a stunning eight saves. Attacking player Toni Martínez outperformed all teammates in that fixture and managed a match rating of 6.83 out of 10.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Gil Vicente and winning 2-1.

With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of Porto is on fire here. A stunning 10 from 3 league matches. Porto have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 0 goals.

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Paços de Ferreira form and stats

Things could have gone better for Paços de Ferreira in their Primeira Liga away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right. Ferreira have had a generous will to share for some time now, running a streak of three draws in a row.

Ferreira's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Belenenses that finished 2-2. It looked so good for Paços de Ferreira vs Belenenses, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw. Midfield player Hélder Ferreira was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.01/10. Ferreira scored one goal, served one assist and hit two key passes.

A 1-2 loss hosting Boavista before that.

With the host team identified as having a winning probability of roughly 80% by the bookies, any positive result for the visitors would be an eye-opener. Checking previous matches with similar odds and Ferreira as the away team, we found one results. The data from these were zero away wins, zero draws and one defeat. The visitors lost one of these fixtures by at least two goals.

The attacking power of Ferreira when travelling is not overwhelming with 2 goals scored from 3 league matches away. As opposed to that, Paços de Ferreira have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Data for the prior ten meetings featuring these two teams are: seven wins for Porto, one draw and two wins for Paços de Ferreira. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.

Top Goalscorers

PortoL. Díaz Marulanda
L. Díaz Marulanda
5 goals
PortoM. Taremi
M. Taremi
4 goals
PortoA. Martínez López
A. Martínez López
3 goals

Porto missing players

Paços de Ferreira missing players

Porto Paços de Ferreira
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
7 3 0 Played P 1 3 7
5 3 0 Won W 1 1 2
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 3
0 0 0 Lost L 0 1 2
16 10 0 Scored S 1 2 7
4 0 0 Conceded C 0 4 9
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 86%
100% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 71%
57% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 43%
14% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 29%
14% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
57% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 43%
43% 100% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 33% 43%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 29%
 
4.9 6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 5 5.9
3.7 4.3 0 Corners against (avg) C A 7 4.7 4
2.9 2.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5 3 2.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
14.9 18.3 0 Shots (avg) S ( 6 11 13.1
4 6 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 3 3.3
57% 56% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 22% 30%
Key stats in Primeira Liga this season:
  • All of Porto's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Porto have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Porto have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Porto have scored more than double the goals of Paços de Ferreira.
  • Porto have the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Primeira Liga
  • Porto have the most scored goals (10) at home in Primeira Liga
  • Porto have the the best goal difference (+10) at home in Primeira Liga
  • Porto have won all their matches at home so far.
  • Porto have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Porto haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Benfica 7 7 0 0 19 4 3 3 0 0 7 2 4 4 0 0 12 2 15 21
2 Porto 7 5 2 0 16 4 3 3 0 0 10 0 4 2 2 0 6 4 12 17
3 Sporting CP 7 5 2 0 11 3 4 3 1 0 7 1 3 2 1 0 4 2 8 17
4 Estoril 7 4 2 1 10 5 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 3 1 0 8 3 5 14
5 Sporting Braga 7 3 3 1 10 6 3 1 1 1 4 3 4 2 2 0 6 3 4 12
6 Portimonense 7 3 2 2 7 4 4 1 1 2 2 3 3 2 1 0 5 1 3 11
7 Boavista 7 2 3 2 9 9 4 2 2 0 7 2 3 0 1 2 2 7 0 9
8 Paços de Ferreira 7 2 3 2 7 9 4 1 2 1 5 5 3 1 1 1 2 4 -2 9
9 Gil Vicente 7 2 2 3 8 8 4 1 1 2 6 6 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 8
10 Vitoria Guimaraes 7 1 4 2 7 6 4 1 1 2 5 4 3 0 3 0 2 2 1 7
11 Vizela 7 1 4 2 6 12 3 1 2 0 4 3 4 0 2 2 2 9 -6 7
12 Maritimo 7 1 3 3 6 9 3 0 2 1 3 5 4 1 1 2 3 4 -3 6
13 Tondela 7 2 0 5 10 14 4 2 0 2 7 7 3 0 0 3 3 7 -4 6
14 Moreirense 7 1 3 3 10 16 4 1 1 2 7 8 3 0 2 1 3 8 -6 6
15 Arouca 7 1 2 4 7 14 3 1 1 1 4 5 4 0 1 3 3 9 -7 5
16 Santa Clara 7 1 2 4 5 15 4 1 2 1 4 8 3 0 0 3 1 7 -10 5
17 Belenenses 7 0 4 3 5 10 3 0 2 1 3 4 4 0 2 2 2 6 -5 4
18 Famalicao 7 0 3 4 7 12 3 0 2 1 2 3 4 0 1 3 5 9 -5 3

Read more about Primeira Liga

The Primeira Liga, also known as Liga NOS, is the top level of football in Portugal. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. Portuguese football is dominated by “The Big Three”: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP (Lisbon). These three clubs generally end up in the top three positions.